VIIRS on Suomi-NPP

VIIRS is one of five instruments aboard the joint National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite. Suomi-NPP launched in October 2011.

Data from the Saildrone wind and solar powered unmanned surface vehicle (USV) field campaign over the California and Baja coasts is now available at NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC). The Saildrone Baja campaign took place from April 11 through June 11, 2018. Along with establishing the utility of data from the Saildrone platform for assessment of satellite data accuracy and model assimilation, campaign objectives included studies of ocean upwelling and frontal region dynamics, air-sea interactions, and diurnal warming effects.